I’ve found the opposite. Rather than have all the cameras load the live view on the favorites screen, I disabled that feature and instead put my cams in a group. So when I want to see multiple cams I just use that. Having them always try to load all the live streams at once on the favorites was causing problems for me.
You’re saying exactly what I’m saying
No I’m saying the exact opposite.
I’ve been using Wyze cameras and doorbells at an Air BnB for a year now and have concluded that they are completely unreliable garbage. I’m researching for a reliable brand to replace all the Wyze devices,
My cameras don’t load live on the favorite screen.
Neither do mine, but having them in a group works fine for me, where having them live on the main screen caused issues. Considering the two things should basically be the same (loading several live views at once), it doesn’t really make sense, but it is what it is. I don’t use the group all the time but it is handy to have all the cameras (divided into screens of 4) available quickly when needed. And I do not notice any issues with anything else when the cams are in a group.
On your router, do you have a way to monitor the live traffic to see what is using the connections?
In the early days with the new app, I had a problem similar to yours which I couldn’t understand until I saw that all my cameras were constantly streaming & the heavy load on the WiFi connection was making it unreliable.
My cameras had uploaded 35Gb of data in a few weeks.
Rebooting, unplugging didn’t change the behaviour, the cameras would start sending data somewhere as soon as they connected.
I resolved my issue completely by changing the monitoring tab status to “disarmed” so there’s no motion detection or notifications & the constant streaming from all cameras stopped.
I was then able to set back the cameras to home and my behaviour had disappeared.
I tried to reproduce this issue but was unable.
So I assumed the issue was related to when they changed the server settings at the same time as they introduced apps 2.0
Now they connect almost instantly to the live view & I rarely have issues except for one camera which is on the extreme for WiFi distance outside.
It’s hard to explain the cause but being able to see the network traffic was a clear indication to me the constant uploading was the cause.
I have a small single wide mh as well, for the most part yhey work fine. In the beginning i had similar issues with both cpv3’s outside. Because of my phone wired 30mb max speed capacity on my internet i had to change setting on both cameras from HD to 360p since then i rarehave problems. My biggest issues is when a vehicle passes, it sometimes follows the headlight reflections and not the car. It didn’t do this the first 6 months but has ever since. It is annoying at that. Also ibe had times when the cameras simply just didn’t record movement, even know they were on and working just fine. Lately its the sound not recording correctly, when it always had before. Thats the lateset development. Ive reset, turned off, unplugged, and even removed the system completely and reinstalled it, still sound doesn’t record correctly.
These are things I have done on my system and rarely have connection issues.
My system is fiber providing 1GB of Data Speed using Eero routers (not so fond of them). So I added a older 2.5 router.
I also gave each a dedicated ip address. I did this because either Eero or my provider frequently changes the external ip address. I’m assuming as a security measurement.
This I believe also helps with potential VPN interference.
I gave the unique names. Not Wyze naming conventions.
Also having them connected via Alexa, or similar, I believe helps as they randomly test connectivity.
My Wyze Connectivity is very solid., but other items still experience issues, which makes me believe it is not Wyze issue but interference w/in my house.
So many “smart” devices.
Since my last post, for some reason, the issue with performance began to rear up again despite previously working pretty well. I’m not sure why, as I hadn’t made any new changes, but as always the whole process is chasing bugs and then chasing them again. I tried a few more things.
Of significant note related to the cameras, I’d already had the auto play on main menu section unselected. While I used to be able to use favorites to view them all autoplaying at once on my phone, I’ve deemed this as an unnecessary strain and disabled it to avoid. Obviously for the purpose of trying to get a reliable connection I’ve dropped all cameras to 360p prior to this post, but it seems like one reset the option on its own?
I have an automation built in the Wyze app to reset all of the cameras automatically every night. I’m sincerely not convinced that it does anything at all, and should probably invest in plugs with a timer on them when I get some money. The recent suggestion that I found to be a pretty solid idea was an outside access point. Given that many of you have rightly suggested that there may just be too much interference with the siding and the walls, this seemed like a good idea. It was also suggested that I didn’t need so many extenders anyway, so I’d since removed one and had it available already.
So I took the extension cable I was using for one of the cameras on my porch and mounted a surge protector at the end of it instead. It’s now holding my camera and a tplink RE315. It looks very much like the work of a crackhead, but this is fine for my purposes. It does appear to significantly improve the likelihood that the cameras will connect to the right extender, whereas before I’m sure they were bouncing around, and hell, I’m in the yard all day anyway. Might as well have better phone signal. - there are still significant improvements I’m planning on making to this, namely: running an Ethernet cable to improve connectivity to the main device, and after potentially breaking it from extender mode to AP mode to better assist cameras in connecting to the correct device once most reliable. The latter will be a pain for other devices, but this is specifically for these to start with.
Thank you all again for your suggestions
Not sure if you mentioned, what kind of internet do you have there?
Just FYI, I used to have connection issues with my Garage Cam. They went away when I reduced the resolution of the camera (I don’t need high def images in my garage).
Yes, lowering the resolution helps with poor bandwidth and flaky WiFi.
I don’t use it outdoors—and I think you’ll want to do something to protect it from the elements if that’s your plan—but I use a TP-Link RE315 in Access Point Mode with an Ethernet connection back to my gateway and have found that to be helpful. Using “range extenders” in that way, when possible, is what makes the most sense to me.
In order to test the connectivity I suggest you bring all your cameras as close to your Wi-Fi router as possible and see if the problem goes away. If so then I agree that the signal is being attenuated by the time it gets to the cameras. If you can move your router closer to them
I also have a very small trailer. I have one camera on a front bedroom window and another mounted inside my shed in a window. The only problems I’ve ever had are trying to figure out the technology. All the cameras work, they all record events ad-nsuseum! I can’t get the front camera to stop recording 12 second ‘events’ of my car, parked in front of my house! Over and over. They also catch my cats if they’re sitting near the window. Shadows on the street of birds flying overhead. At night, moths. On a windy day, the trees shadows on the side of the house. My sensitivity is set at 50%. I have Verizon Internet. No special extender, just the single router in my living room. Thankfully I’ve never had the issue you seen to have.
I have experienced a similar issue: I live in a 650 sq ft apartment, have FIOS which according to Ookla, averages over 400 mb/sec, a relatively current asus router, a V1, V2 & V3 camera and while, none of them have fully disconnected, I occasionally get an on screen error message on the app telling me that a camera needs more bandwidth. To that I say… WTF??? And has been said, when these cameras are working, they’re terrific, especially for the price! But why do they drop signal so easily? I’m sorry that I cannot offer you any help or suggestions other than to say that you’re not the only person who experiences unexplainable signal drop. Also of not:I have about a dozen or so other assorted Wyze devices including color bulbs and plugs all of which function flawlessly. I suppose the bandwidth demands of the cameras are more demanding than the momentary commands given to the the lights and plugs I give them through Alexa
Regarding my internet connection, it’s a surprisingly relatively stable and low latency service for my rural situation; I think it’s FTTN with coax cable routed to the premise. probably 760-860 on a wired connection @ 1000Mbps full duplex, wireless obviously contingent on signal strength on location. Sub 30ms latency usually.
obviously it’d be more effective to have a direct stream from the camera to a local device and THEN handling the recording part, but at the price point it’s expected to be gated into the Wyze environment. So working with that, the real resolution I think in my situation (outside of the obvious issues with always online vs local) is going to be (as many of you have suggested) overengineering an extremely strong connection to the main service.
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That means your wifi doesn’t have enough bandwidth. Your internet speed doesn’t come into play when viewing over your LAN (other than a tiny bit for the initial authentication).
You’re in an apartment which means you’re contending with neighbors for wifi spectrum. Your dozens of devices, even though they don’t need much bandwidth, are also compounding that issue.
You can try different channels on your wifi, and there are lots of other tweaks you can do in the asus router, one big one is disabling “Universal beamforming” which causes problems when you have lots of devices in different directions from the router.
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Turn on detection zone masking for the area you park in your car and it will keep it from being detected